Chapter Forty-Eight: The Demon Cave
Lin Yuan tilted his head and looked at the city with the city gates wide open. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Hmm...... It stinks......"
He hadn't even entered the city, and some distance was still there, when he smelled a disgusting stench.
It was the smell of corpses, the smell of decay from corpses.
"Where is the city information of the Kingdom of Kennedia?" Lin Yuan looked through his shadow and found the information prepared by the General Staff, "This city should be a medium-sized city on the border, because it is not a key route for trade, it is not too prosperous, but there are also 160,000 people living there, well, I understand." ”
“...... Inside...... It's weird......"
Lily of the valley, who had observed the internal environment of the city from the sky, returned to Lin Yuan's side after making a circle above.
"There weren't any corpses there, but the air was filled with the constant stench of corpses, and ...... I always feel like the city isn't good......"
"Ah, is that so? It seems that the other party must have cut off the supply, or else it wouldn't have emitted such a stench. ”
Lin Yuan touched his chin thoughtfully.
Then he pointed to the city in front of him and waved his hand to draw a circle.
"Lily of the valley, you can use the magic to cut off the attribute in the surrounding area of this city, and the distance is just as good, about a thousand meters underground. ”
"Do you really know anything...... Never mind. ”
Lily of the valley glanced at Lin Yuan, shook her head slightly, and then went to carry out her order.
She flew into the sky above the city, a silver aura of magic unfurled behind her, armed with a spear-shaped magic guide, aimed at the ground.
Beneath the gray clouds, in the slightly gloomy sky, flickering starlight erupted, firing a ring of magical attacks from the muzzles of the magicians' guns, enveloping the entire perimeter of the city.
Rings of light descended to the ground, and sharp severing magic went straight into the earth, causing the surface to shake slightly, splashing a large amount of mud and dust.
Lin Yuan's gaze went deep into the ground, and after finding that the target had been completely physically cut off, he kept nodding.
"Alright, let the monsters wait outside the city, let's go inside the city, there should be no problem now. ”
Lin Yuan asked Lily of the Valley to keep watch in the air, and then led his subordinates into the city.
The whole city was dead silent, there was no human population in sight, no traces of people's life were left, and the breath of human beings had long since disappeared.
Everything is silent.
There were no corpses, no blood, just the stench wafting through the air.
The deeper you go into the city, the stronger the stench of the rotting corpses becomes, and after only a few blocks, the stench of decay makes people's noses sour, and you have to hold your breath to endure it.
Lin Yuan rode a horse-shaped monster and walked slowly on the street, observing the environment of the city left and right.
Some of the buildings were damaged, mostly concentrated in the same area, the rest were still intact, and no human beings were visible in the buildings.
Lin Yuan had long observed the life reactions of the entire city, and there were no living creatures here, not even insects and plants.
"Buckfere, swing your sword at this place, and turn out what is underneath it, and cut it as deep as you can. ”
Coming to the center of the city, on the square in front of the city lord's castle, Lin Yuan stopped and ordered his men to act.
Because of the extremely strong smell around him, Buckfere could only hold his breath and nod in response, he summoned a dark red magic sword from his body, and then swung a dim sword light that tore through everything in the direction his master pointed.
A magical attack with the concept of slashing and tearing, easily slicing through the earth and slicing through the floor of the square paved with heavy masonry.
Even the attack of dirt and dust did not raise any smoke screen to obscure the view, and under the crisp sound of sword blades, a huge rift appeared hundreds of meters long, and I don't know how many.
The entire gathering square was split, and the earth revealed its true appearance in the gray sunlight.
“...... What is this!"
Buckfere could barely hold the sword in his hand, and when he saw what it looked like in the depths of the earth, his face lost its color from the violent.
"The smell of corpses...... Is this something coming from......"
Wu Qiu supported his crumbling friend in the back, staring at the facet of the earth with a grim face.
Beneath the city, is the flesh and blood of some kind of creature.
A huge creature that had long since decayed, oozing gray-black blood.
As you can see from the cracks in the square, this rotting piece of meat is most likely spread all over the bottom of the city.
Although the original form is no longer visible, from the texture of the viscera, it is indeed the internal organs of a living creature, and there are traces of it that has indeed survived.
And in the crack in front of me, there came a suffocating stench that was incomparable just now.
The smell is so strong that it gives the illusion that if you inhale it, your internal organs will rot.
"This is a good thing done by the Vientiane Research Society, a biological womb that can give birth to monsters. ”
Lin Yuan jumped off his mount and walked to the edge of the rift, looking down at the monster womb that had turned into rotten flesh.
"If I'm right, this womb must have had some kind of accident before we came, cutting off the supply of nutrients, so it would have rotted completely, but unfortunately, if the accident had happened earlier, maybe we wouldn't have had to deal with such a thing. ”
“...... I said, the inhabitants of this city...... Probably not ......" Naretia forced her grooming and asked in the rotten air, "Aren't all the people here becoming food for monsters?"
"Hmm, no, how could you guess that? Don't you see any traces of blood in the city?" Lin Yuan smiled and shook his head.
Naretia's eyebrows furrowed tightly, and by this time, she had noticed the structure of the corpses of underground creatures, and some parts were directly connected to the castle not far away.
A thought appeared in her mind, and her pupils dilated for a moment.
She raised her head in disbelief, and her shocked gaze made contact with Lin Yuan.
"That's it, the Vientiane Research Society's method of making monsters is almost the same as mine. ”
Lin Yuan felt the thoughts in the hearts of his dependents and further affirmed them.
"The method by which I create monsters is to offer sacrifices, and the method of creating monsters by the Vientiane Research Society is to put humans into the sub-offerings of monsters, and then after transformation, they give birth to monsters, and although the details are different, the general direction is the same. ”
“...... In other words, all the inhabitants of the city ......" Heras couldn't help but gasp, accidentally inhaling the rancid smell in the air.
"Yes, they were all thrown into this womb and became monsters. ”
Lin Yuan almost burst out laughing.
"That's right, all the inhabitants have become the 100,000 monsters we just dealt with. ”
He did his best to maintain a serious expression and glanced around.
"The 160,000 inhabitants of this city, through the transformation of the monster womb, then produced a certain degree of inevitable attrition, and the number was reduced to 100,000. ”
Lin Yuan raised his head, Lily of the Valley, who was in charge of monitoring the nearby environment in the sky, had been paying attention to the conversation underground, and after hearing the news, the magic light on her body kept flickering violently.
"Didn't I just ask Lily of the Valley to launch an attack on the ground to cut off the attributes, this is a move for insurance, in order to completely cut off the transmission pipeline of mana supply from the outside world. ”
Buckfere's eyes were bloodshot, and his fists were clenched so hard that they cracked the tiger's mouth.
"All the cities of the Kingdom of Kennessia, one of them, have all become the wombs that give birth to monsters, and all of them have become veritable demon caves. ”
Lin Yuan picked up the map of the Kingdom of Kenesia in his hand and waved it at his subordinates.
"Between each city, there are biological pipelines connected underground, which can provide each other with a steady stream of magic power, as long as there are enough transformation items, new monsters can be generated at any time, if the city has become a demon cave, then this country is a real demon domain. ”
Lin Yuan breathed in the smell of decay in the air, and finally couldn't help but laugh softly.
"How many people are still alive in this prosperous country, this country with more than 10 million people?"
If it weren't for the support of his friends, Buckfere would have been unable to control himself and fall.
"By the way, the source of all the city's magic is the capital of the Kingdom of Kennessia, what has become of that ancient city?"
Lin Yuan's relaxed tone was incompatible with the heavy atmosphere emanating from the surroundings.
He clapped his hands lightly and grinned at his gloomy men.
It was a smile that was too bright to look at.
"I'd love to know the answer, so let's get ready and get ready. ”